Cicely Tyson
First lady Jill Biden embraces a person receiving a vaccine speak as she visits the Abyssinian Baptist Church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, Sunday, June 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Jill Biden, Dr. Fauci visit vaccine site at Harlem church

Jun. 06, 2021 05:41 PM EDT

FILE - Cicely Tyson arrives at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 20, 2009, in Los Angeles. Tyson, the pioneering Black actress who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper's wife in "Sounder," a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers' hearts in "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," has died. She was 96. Tyson's death was announced by her family, via her manager Larry Thompson, who did not immediately provide additional details. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)
Public viewing for Cicely Tyson at famed Harlem church

Feb. 03, 2021 08:47 PM EST

FILE - In this May 1, 2019, file photo, actress Carol Sutton arrives at the World Premiere of "Poms" in Los Angeles. Sutton, a fixture on stages in her native New Orleans who built a steady career on the big and small screens, including roles in the 1989 comedy “Steel Magnolias” and the TV series “Queen Sugar,” died Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, from complications from COVID-19, according to New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell. Sutton was 76. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)
New Orleans stage and screen actor Carol Sutton dies at 76

By Mark Kennedy Dec. 12, 2020 03:37 PM EST

FILE - Ken Burns, director of the PBS documentary series "Country Music," speaks in a panel discussion during the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour on July 29, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Burns says he has eight new projects in the works, including deep-dive looks at Benjamin Franklin, Muhammad Ali, Leonard da Vinci and Ernest Hemingway. PBS announced a new online home for all the work of Burns and other documentarians, a subscription streaming service that will start next month. Besides Burns' library, the service will also have work from "NOVA" and "Frontline. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
Burns outlines 8 projects; PBS launches documentary service

By David Bauder Jul. 28, 2020 04:19 PM EDT